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    Business

    10 research topics · 28 questions

    Selection bias in board diversity and corporate performance1 questions

    1. Credible causal identification of the corporate governance–firm performance relation under joint sample selection and endogeneity

    Does diversification discount come from value destruction or endogenous selection?4 questions

    1. Is there a causal conglomerate discount? Robust identification of the diversification–firm-value relation and its mechanism

    2. Causal sources of the residual diversification discount that persists after controlling for corporate governance (Hoechle, Schmid, Walter, and Yermack, 2012)

    3. Does self-selection explain the global diversification discount? Selection-corrected valuation of international corporate diversification under strengthened identification

    4. The diversification discount in financial conglomerates: causal origin, mechanism, and measurement robustness

    Distinguishing analyst forecast herding behavior and information cascades3 questions

    1. Identifying the mechanism of aggregate-uncertainty-amplified herding in analysts' stock recommendations and its consequences for price efficiency

    2. Causal mechanisms behind analyst anti-herding in earnings forecasts

    3. Robustness of the dispersion-coverage identification of analyst herding: dynamic, heterogeneous, and sequential extensions of the finite-player forecasting game

    The roles of efficiency needs and imitation pressure in the diffusion of management fads3 questions

    1. Does management innovation build political legitimacy? Extending and validating the efficiency-versus-legitimacy account of management innovation's performance effects

    2. Identifying the micro-level mechanisms behind the diffusion of pre-sale wool testing technologies in Australia: linking Bass/Abrahamson aggregate classifications to adopter-level processes

    3. Legitimacy or efficiency: does institutional conformity in management accounting pay off?

    The dilution effect and synergy boundary of brand extension2 questions

    1. Luxury brand personality under repeated brand extensions: accumulation, boundary conditions, and reversibility of dilution effects

    2. Parent-brand dilution from vertical-downward line extensions: price-distance granularity, sub-brand versus direct-extension framing, and limited-edition mitigation

    Conditions for the persistence of first-mover advantage in digital platform markets2 questions

    1. Empirical delimitation of first-mover advantage sources in Internet-enabled versus physical market environments: testing the Varadarajan-Yadav-Shankar (2008) framework

    2. Conditions and mechanisms for the persistence of first-mover advantages: regulation, informal institutions, firm-level heterogeneity, and cross-industry boundary conditions

    Productivity improvement from remote work coexisting with decline in innovative collaboration3 questions

    1. Dynamic silos: the untested causal consequences and mechanisms of pandemic-era modularity increases and membership instability in intra-organizational communication networks

    2. Does remote work drive or deter continuous digital product innovation? Direct-measurement validation, causal mechanisms, and generalization beyond top-ranked mobile apps

    3. Causal effects of office, remote, and hybrid work arrangements on employee innovation, and the coordination interventions that could restore it

    The inverted-U relationship between organizational slack and innovation4 questions

    1. The unresolved agenda of the too-much-of-a-good-thing (TMGT) effect: predicting, locating, and validly testing context-specific inflection points

    2. Does excessive overall organizational slack harm firm innovation? The untested agency-theory prediction for high-slack configurations, their mechanisms, and causal ordering

    3. The full-spectrum test of organizational slack and firm innovation: incorporating recoverable and human-resource slack in the Korean panel setting

    4. Is more or less organizational slack better? The functional form, strategic contingencies, and mechanisms of the slack–firm performance relationship

    Measurement controversies of the impact of CEO overconfidence on acquisition premium3 questions

    1. Disciplining overconfident acquirers: governance and compensation mitigation, proxy robustness, and the long-run neutrality of market valuation in acquisitions

    2. Causal identification and quantification of CEO overconfidence in corporate acquisitions

    3. Is the CEO overconfidence–takeover premium relation robust to how overconfidence is measured? Convergent validity of behavioral proxies in acquisitions

    Reverse causality in the relationship between ESG performance and financial performance3 questions

    1. Open issues in the curvilinear, time-lagged impact of sustainability performance on financial performance in Germany (Nuber, Velte and Hörisch, 2019): causal direction, robustness, and boundary conditions

    2. Chicken or egg: the causal structure of the corporate social performance–corporate financial performance relationship and its industry contingency

    3. Generalizing the institutional difference hypothesis for the ESG–financial performance link beyond Brazil and South Africa: extended time windows and endogeneity-robust estimation

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